Thursday, June 27, 2019

IS IT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO BE HAPPY? (CXXVI)

I have a good job, loving family, I dance, I read,  I write, I travel. But still I am not always happy. Why is this so that we have everything and still we are not happy. If someone ask me what I need to be happy, I do not have any answer.

When I finish reading a book I feel elated. When I take dip in a new river I feel happy. When I write a new article or a poem I feel exhilarated. Happiness is in small moments. It is not necessary that we should always be happy. In this era of social media to be happy always has become an obligation these days. It has become a job. We pressure ourselves to be happy, to be productive all the time.

Have you heard about Vipassana?
It is a ten days programme where you do nothing. You cannot read, you cannot talk to anyone, you are all by yourself for full ten days. Many people give up in two to three days only. I have heard about this programme from my friends who have stayed like this for ten days and the experience they have felt cannot be expressed in words. I realised that doing nothing is a form of meditation. Having no feeling is also a feeling.

It is ok to be sad, it is fine to have mood swings. That's what we humans are made of - emotions. Otherwise we are all robots. Don't pressure yourself to be happy all the time, don't pressure yourself to be productive all the time. It is fine to relax sometimes, to let flow your emotions whatever they may be.



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